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Kōrero: Water quality

Wetland reduces nutrient loads

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Wetland reduces nutrient loads

Wetlands can be created to reduce or remove nutrients from polluted runoff water before it enters major lakes or rivers. This wetland is in Whakarewarewa Forest, by Lake Rotorua.

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NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

by Mike Scarsbrook

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Mike Scarsbrook rāua ko Kit Rutherford, Water quality – Lakes Rotorua and Taupō, and the Manawatū River, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/15531/wetland-reduces-nutrient-loads (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Mike Scarsbrook rāua ko Kit Rutherford, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009, updated 18 July 2016.